In order to accomplish a world free of all forms of malnutrition, WHO supports Member States to guarantee universal access to reliable nutrition actions and to healthy and sustainable diets. To do this, WHO establishes evidence-informed standards on the proper actions Member States and partners ought to require to improve nutrition in individuals and populations.
Guidelines include the current clinical proof for scientific practice or public health policies and programs, such as information about the quantities of salt and sugars people ought to consume, along with recommendations on baby feeding and iron supplementation, among others.
WHO guidelines offer a choice amongst various interventions or steps that doctors, public health specialists and Member States can make to have an anticipated positive effect on health and nutrition. Each guideline goes through an independent, transparent, evidence-informed, consensual decision-making process.WHO focuses on the advancement of new guidelines on a continuous basis and tracks the procedure through our nutrition standard advancement and procedure tracking tool. New guidelines can take anywhere from 6 months to 5 years to produce. All standards currently in development, in addition to those released within the past 12 months are listed in the tool. In order to achieve a world without all kinds of poor nutrition, WHO supports Member States to ensure universal access to efficient nutrition actions and to healthy and sustainable diets. To do this, WHO establishes evidence-informed guidelines on the suitable actions Member States and partners need to require to improve nutrition in people and populations.
